Goldenwest Huntington Beach Concrete lays driveways, patios and pool decks in Cypress, 10 miles up Valley View Street from Edinger Avenue, under the same morning cloud as at the beach.
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Cypress sits about 6 miles from the ocean, close enough that the marine layer covers it most mornings from May into July. That damp air is why we schedule and cure a slab here as we do at the beach.
A slab loses its water two ways, into the ground beneath it and into the air above it, and it is the second that ruins a finish. Under a marine layer the surface stays damp through the morning and the crew can trowel and joint at a walking pace. Once the cloud burns off at noon a Cypress afternoon runs hotter than the beach, and a slab poured late loses its surface water faster than it gains strength, which is what crazing is. So a Cypress pour goes in at first light.
What the marine layer does not carry this far inland is the salt. There is chloride in the air at the pier and very little at Katella Avenue, so the sealer on a Cypress slab is there against water and oil rather than salt, though the 3 inches of cover over the steel stays, because the code sets it against the ground. The base is the other change. Cypress is silt over old dairy pasture rather than dune sand, so the ground is dug to firm material and 4 inches of rock goes under the slab.
Cypress was built out in about a decade, so most of the concrete on a lot here is the tract builder's and it is all failing in the same few years. The list below is the work we are called to it for, in the order we are asked.
A Cypress driveway is the tract builder's, poured in the 1960s for one car and now carrying two and a pickup. We take it out, dig the silt to firm ground, lay 4 inches of crushed rock and pour 5 inches over steel, with the approach at the curb drawn for Public Works first.
Patios in Cypress start from the builder's slab at the back door and a level yard that drains nowhere. We pour 4 inches on a compacted base with a quarter inch of fall per foot away from the house, tie it to the old slab with dowels and joint it every 10 feet.
Stamped work in Cypress is asked for in ashlar and flagstone patterns to match the pavers the tract owners have laid at the front. The pattern is pressed into a 4 inch slab colored in the mix and sealed at 28 days, with a reseal every 2 to 3 years keeping the color in.
The walk at the curb in Cypress belongs to the city and the walk to your door belongs to you. We replace both, the public panel under an encroachment permit from Public Works and the private walk without one, doweled into the panel either side so the joint never steps.
Garage floors in Cypress are the original 1960s slab, often cracked where a car has parked for 60 years on 3 inches of concrete. We break it out, compact a base and pour 4 inches with a vapor barrier under it, so the floor stays dry enough to coat or to live on later.
Exposed aggregate is the decorative finish that suits a Cypress yard, because the stone gives grip on a surface the marine layer leaves damp most mornings. We seed the aggregate into a 4 inch slab, wash the paste off the same day and seal it once it has cured.
A Cypress retaining wall is low, since the ground is flat, and it holds a raised bed or a step between two levels of yard. We footing it 18 inches into firm ground below the silt, run drain rock and a pipe behind the stem and cap it level, so the soil behind it stays put.
Interior floors in Cypress go into converted garages and the rooms added behind a tract house. We pour over a 10 mil vapor barrier because the silt below holds water, trowel the slab flat enough for tile or a polish and lay the joints out on a grid the room can hide.
The route is the 405 north to Valley View Street and Valley View north to Katella Avenue, about 10 miles, and a mixer is on a Cypress street 25 minutes after it leaves the yard. Permits go to the City of Cypress Building Division at City Hall on Orange Avenue, and a new approach, a curb cut or a panel of the public walk takes an encroachment permit from Public Works as well. We file whichever the job needs and are there for the inspection.
Cypress runs from the 605 and Coyote Creek on its west edge to Knott Avenue on its east, with Lincoln Avenue, Ball Road and Katella Avenue crossing it, and the tract streets between them hold the same single-story house on the same size of lot for blocks at a time. The race course and the business park along Katella are the exception, and the townhomes built around them since have shared drives an association owns, so we check who the slab belongs to before we draw it.
The ground is flat enough that a Cypress yard has no fall of its own, and a slab poured level pools water at the door. We set every form to drop a quarter inch in each foot away from the house and toward the yard drain or the street, and where a patio meets the builder's slab at the back door we hold it half an inch below the threshold. Rain comes in the same 3 winter months as at the coast, so from December to March a pour is booked around the forecast.
The same crew from the first visit to the walk-through, with the estimate written at the property before anything is agreed. Cypress jobs are booked early in the day to finish under the marine layer.
Scott Ferreira measures the slab, probes the ground for soft silt, checks the fall to the street and writes the estimate before he leaves.
Any permit goes to the Cypress Building Division, and an approach or a walk to Public Works. The start date includes the review time.
The old slab comes out, the silt is dug to firm ground and 4 inches of crushed rock is laid and compacted before a form is set.
The pour starts early, the finish goes on under the cloud and the joints are sawn that afternoon. Cars are back on the slab in 7 days.
Call the office or send the form and we reply within 1 business day. The visit costs nothing, the estimate is written at the property, and Cypress is the shortest drive north we make, so it is booked inside the week.
Reviews
Reviews left on Google, Facebook and the BBB by people whose concrete we poured across coastal Orange County. Cypress is among the towns they come from, and each names the job and its year.
“Our pool deck was the original 1972 surface, lifting at the coping. They cut it out, compacted the sand, poured 640 square feet at 4 inches with an isolation joint at the pool, and sealed it at 28 days. Scott Ferreira measured it on a Thursday and we had the written estimate before he left.”
“The old driveway had sunk where the sand washed out under it and the cars scraped at the apron. They pulled the encroachment permit themselves, compacted the base in three lifts, poured 5 inches for my husband's truck and cut the joints that afternoon. Two winters on, not a crack.”
“We wanted a patio that looked like slate without the joints weeds get into. Scott Ferreira laid the pattern out with us on the visit, the crew poured 380 square feet, stamped it in ashlar and sealed it at 28 days. A full year of salt air later it still looks like the day it was finished.”
What we are asked on a Cypress visit, answered as we answer them at the curb. The permit counter, the ground, the drive from Huntington Beach, the cure, and how many days before a car goes back on.
The base, before the concrete. A Cypress slab sits on silt that has to be dug out to firm ground and replaced with crushed rock, and the depth of that dig is the line that moves most between one lot and the next. Then thickness, steel and finish. We measure and probe on a free visit and write the estimate at the property, because a lot off Ball Road and a townhome off Katella are not the same job.
Not for flatwork inside your lot line, which the California Residential Code exempts. The approach at the curb and the public walk are the city's right-of-way and take an encroachment permit from Cypress Public Works, and a retaining wall over 4 feet or a slab under a room takes a building permit from the Building Division at City Hall on Orange Avenue. We file it and meet the inspector.
About 10 miles, the 405 to Valley View Street and north to Katella Avenue, which is 25 minutes with a mixer behind. Cypress is the nearest town north of the office we cover, so a visit fits between two jobs at home and a pour is booked in the same week as the estimate. You hear back within 1 business day from the first call.
Yes. Huntington Beach is dune sand, which drains and only needs compacting. Cypress is silt over the old dairy pasture along Coyote Creek, and silt holds water for weeks after rain and softens under a slab. So a Cypress job has a base that a beach job may not, the silt dug to firm ground and 4 inches of crushed rock compacted over it, and the slab is jointed to move as one plate above it.
Two to four working days on site, then 7 days before a car goes on it. Tear-out and the base take the first day or two, the pour and the finish are one morning, and the joints are sawn that afternoon. You can walk on it after 24 to 48 hours. In summer we pour early to finish under the marine layer, so the crew is often gone by early afternoon.
Yes. Los Alamitos, La Palma, Buena Park, Stanton, Hawaiian Gardens and Cerritos all border Cypress and all are on our list, and the crew crosses the county line at Coyote Creek into Los Angeles County with the same license and insurance. Each town has its own permit counter and its own page here, so if your street sits on a city line, check the address before you call.
Cypress shares a line with Los Alamitos, La Palma, Buena Park, Stanton and Hawaiian Gardens, and the crew that comes to Cypress covers all of them from one office. If your street sits on one of those lines, the page for the town next door may be yours.
Open the Huntington Beach Office in Google Maps Send the form or call and we reply within 1 business day to book the visit. The estimate is free and written at your property, and every slab carries a written workmanship guarantee.